Global warming, global cooling, ozone depletion, desertification, environmental tipping points and many more issues are worrying folks all over the planet. Rightly so. We as the human race have for the last 661 or so years have been on a upward spiral of population growth and industrialization.

Let me put that in perspective for everyone. Around 1348 AD a major change in how humanity was managed came around. The Black Plague swept through Europe and the Middle East wiping out 25% to 50% of the human population on average, in some isolated places the death tolls were in excess of 90%. Most of the deaths occurred in dense population centers (cities and densely populated rural areas).

To fill in for now dead monks, the church began teaching laymen to read and write. Next up came the movable type press, books, information and the industrial revolution.

We have been consuming as if there is no limit to our resources. Cutting down forests, digging and burning coal, pumping oil out of the ground and burning it as if that was a good idea. All of this has led us to a point where we have gone past a number of environmental tipping points.

In this blog I will attempt to explain a bit of this to you all in ways that should allow you to knit it all together. The essential part of this is that change has gotten to the point that one way or another we are in trouble.

Ask a farmer what he calls "bad weather". He will usually tell you that bad weather is any type that keeps him from bringing off the crop he happens to grow. No matter which way climate change goes in YOUR area change is bad. If it suddenly gets drier, bad. Wetter, bad. Colder, bad. Climate change will be different for any given area, and even any given season.

So, what it all boils down to is the weather is getting bad already. Farmers are having issues pulling a crop off now as you read this. You see it in the news every day. What you don't see is reporting on the global effects on food supplies. For some reason American news services seem to not be reporting the food riots, failed crops, and extended droughts currently occurring all over the world.

In any case, I will try to compile here what the changes are and how they relate to the over all changes.